Week ThreeA year or so ago my best friend showed me this song, and ever since then I've wondered what the song was inspired by. according to songfacts.com The band received a letter that a highschooler wrote before he committed suicide, the guitarist (Tom DeLonge) said the following when asked about the song. "The story behind this is Mark read a letter someone sent him as an email, that a kid wrote before he committed suicide to his parents. We kind of got together and wrote this sad, slow song. It came out sadder than we ever thought it would, which is good too. Any song that moves you is good. Some people listen to it and go 'Wow, that's a real bum-out of a song.' But it's one of those things, a story of a kid not being happy in his life, crossed with us being really lonely on tour. At the end of it there's a better way out, there are better things to do than kill yourself." This song, alt least to me, is a message that life gets better, even in you're worst times things can only go up from there.
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